Indian cities make no progress on quality of living rankings, Hyderabad emerges as best

Nothing changed for India on Mercer’s Quality of Living rankings 2016. The survey ranked Vienna has city with best quality of living for third straight year.

But, nothing much changed for Indian cities on the quality of living scale, scoring nearly the same as they did last year.

Hyderabad, Pune and Chennai emerged as best options for lower crime rate, less air pollution and improved options for international and reputable English speaking schools.

Hyderabad also slipped one rank from last year to 139 in the overall rankings and Pune ranked at 144.

Mumbai and New Delhi were at 152 and 161, respectively.

However, the rankings revealed that Indian cities were safer than most others in South Asia.

Sri Lanka's capital Colombo was above Hyderabad by 6 ranks, at 132, Dhaka in Bangladesh is ranked 216 and Pakistan's Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi are ranked 193, 199 and 202 respectively.

Meanwhile, Vienna was followed by Zurich (2), Auckland (3), Munich (4) and Vancouver (5).

Mercer's Quality of Living surveys taken into account political and social environment, medical care and health considerations, public services, recreation facilities and natural environment amongst others.

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